[U-Boot] [PATCH V2] mx28: fix SPL code to make USB booting work

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Mon Feb 6 16:29:33 CET 2012


> This patch fixes booting i.MX28 CPUs via USB download.
> In this mode the CPU's bootrom implements a USB HID device that
> accepts a bootstream.
> 
> When downloading the bootstream via USB, first the SPL code is
> received and executed. Then the u-boot image is received and
> called.
> 
> The USB bootmode is interrupt driven.
> 
> This patch fixes two things:
> 
> 1) The ARM's fast interrupt mode is disabled when the SPL code
> has been run. So save and restore the CPSR register.
> 
> 2) The exception vector location is set back to bootrom space to
> make the USB interrupts work again. The SPL code needs to change this
> option for the ram size probing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs at esd.eu>
> ---
> changes in v2:
>  - store old SPSR on stack instead of jiggling around with some bits
>  - remove #ifndef CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
> 
>  arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/mx28/start.S |   15 +++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/mx28/start.S
> b/arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/mx28/start.S index 2cd4d73..69d911b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/mx28/start.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/mx28/start.S
> @@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ _reset:
>  	 * set the cpu to SVC32 mode
>  	 */
>  	mrs	r0,cpsr
> +	push	{r0}
>  	bic	r0,r0,#0x1f
>  	orr	r0,r0,#0xd3
>  	msr	cpsr,r0
> @@ -185,6 +186,20 @@ _reset:
> 
>  	bl	board_init_ll
> 
> +	/*
> +	 * restore bootrom's cpu mode (especially FIQ)
> +	 */
> +	pop	{r0}
> +	msr	cpsr,r0
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * set exception vector location back to bootrom space.
> +	 * (required by bootrom for USB boot)
> +	 */
> +	mrc	p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 0
> +	orr	r0, r0, #0x00002000	/* set bit 13 'V' */
> +	mcr	p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 0

Maybe you can save this register too, like you did with CPSR?

Otherwise, it looks good.

btw plain "push r0" doesn't work?

M
> +
>  	pop	{r0-r12,r14}
>  	bx	lr


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